My posts today at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch:
Web Conferences Exclude Women
LawGeek points to an analysis by Mike Monterio and Jason Kottke showing that women speakers are lacking at most Web conferences to an outrageous extent. One notable exception: BlogHer Business ’07, where all the speakers are women.…
Court library site adds EDD page
The Web site of the Mass. Trial Court Law Libraries has added a page devoted to Law About Electronic Discovery. According to the library’s blog, Massachusetts Law Updates, the new page was added “to provide easy access to the many resources that are now available both online and in print on this…
Lawyer2Lawyer: Punitives and the Supreme Court
This week on our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the implications of the Supreme Court’s punitive damages decision, Philip Morris USA v. Williams for big business and big tobacco. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and I are Michael Gerhardt, professor of law at UNC School of Law;…
Peanut allergies and the law
My latest Web Watch column for Law Technology News explores online resources related to peanut allergies and the law. (Free registration required.)…
Presidential Patents
Trivia question: Who was the only U.S. president to hold a patent?
Find the answer at eWeek’s countdown of the 10 Most Techie Presidents.…
LexisNexis overhauls Lawyers.com
LexisNexis today unveiled a new version of its consumer legal portal lawyers.com. An announcement said the site now has a more robust search engine for conducting searches for attorneys listed in the Martindale-Hubbell database. The new search tools include a “free text” query that allows more flexible searching by keywords, a “pick list”…
A global magazine rack
In the days before the Internet, I used to like to head over to Out of Town News, a news stand in Harvard Square, Cambridge, for its selection of newspapers and magazines from throughout the world. Here is the Internet version of that, PDF-Mags.com. It links to PDF versions of magazines from throughout the…
Lawyer2Lawyer: Libby Trial and Freedom of the Press
The First Amendment and freedom of the press are front and center in the trial of Scooter Libby. This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer (formerly Coast to Coast), we discuss the trial, shield laws and judicial attitutes towards free speech and a free press. My cohost J. Craig Williams and I…
Justia Does FindLaw One Better
Way back in July and August 2005, I wrote a series of posts here about what I called the aging core of FindLaw. In the first post of the series, I started with this:
…“FindLaw’s core is showing its age. Started in 1994 as an index of legal resources on the Internet,
My posts today at Legal Blog Watch
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